I went to a high school graduation party in Oregon on Saturday. This young woman didn’t graduate with a 4.0 GPA. She got one B in third quarter calculus. I was lucky to get through that class my second year in college. She’ll be attending Oregon State University in the fall and still trying to decide what she wants to be. Oncology seems to be the one working its way to the top of the list.
There are many graduating from high school and college this spring. It’s a time to reflect on the whole younger generation and how are they doing. We hear stories about the education system and how it’s failing and yet many seem to be doing just fine.
There are a lot of distractions today. More than when I was that age. Are these “kids” smarter or dumber? I think smarter. They still have the same problems as us old folks. They still have to find what drives them to be better, to be exceptional. Are there others struggling? Yes there are. But I see a large number of young adults doing just fine.
The world is changing and sometimes we don’t want it to. We try and hold on to what is comfortable and easy, staying away from the difficult and demanding. What is hard for me is easy for others and vise- versa. The best thing I can do for them is to step aside and allow them to find themselves and solve the problems that we haven’t, just as the previous generation did for us. They’ll make mistakes like we did, but they’ll find answers to questions that didn’t exist. All the best to this new crop of graduates and may you find as many challenges and opportunities as I had.
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